Kuristian rushed down the hall of the sixth squad main building, he was late to his first squad meeting since he joined the Gotei thirteen and he was nervous; well nervous about being late and nervous that he was going to meet his squads Captain for the very first time. He hurried down the hall at lightning speed he could feel his heart pounding and the sweat on his forehead falling as he cut through air down the hall. I can make before they start, I'm almost there…… Kuristian rounded a corner he could see the door where the main audience chamber was. Yes..! almost ….Kuristian came to screeching stop; he wiped his brow with his sleeve and waited a moment for his breath to even out. After about three minutes Kuristian slide the door open and went to step through when he was punched right in the face. The force of the punch caught him off guard and sent him flying through the air right into the wall. Kuristian slowly slide to the room, his head spinning trying to figure out what had just happened.

"You lazy bastard, your late!" said an annoyed voice

Kuristian sighed; he knew who it was without having to look. He rubbed his face and looked up at the person now standing over him.

"I know, I know I'm late, I just-."

Kuristian felt a fist connect with his head knocking him to the floor.

" No excuses!!!" said the person. "You're lucky the Captain isn't here yet or else I'd still be beating you.

Kuristian pried his face off the floor and looked up at the person looking down on him. He sighed.

" You're right, I'm sorry, Abarai-san." Kuristian Apologized. "But could you've just yelled at me, you know you have a strong right hook for a girl." Kuristian stated as he rubbed the side of his face. He stood up and looked over at the short haired red head woman standing beside him ;her name was Abarai Usagi and she was Kuristian closest friend. They had grown up together, well mostly. He was a just a street rat and she was not royalty but in a higher class then he was, they met when she got separated from her father and Kuristian found her and helped her look for him. After that day they were close friends even in academy, and she was always on his back about his constant lateness for everything, so when he met with her fist at the door he wasn't all that surprised.

"Sorry, about knocking you into the wall b-but you have no one to blame but yourself I told you that we were having a meeting today earlier."

" Ya did?…I don't…" Kuristian voice fell down to a mumble as Usagi locked eyes with him. He swallowed slowly as a look of evil crept over Usagi's face.

"What, were you gonna say, Nakano-san?" she said menacingly

Kuristian gave a weak smiled and shook his head.

"N-nothing, I was gonna say nothing." he laughed nervously.

"Oi, you two!" said another Shinigami "The Vice -Captain and Captain are here, come on."

Kuristian and Usagi looked at each other in excitement and hurried into the room and quickly took their seats. There was much talking and movement as the members of the sixth squad took their seats, Kuristian could feel the excitement in the air, he hadn't felt like this since the time he graduated 9 months before. He looked over at Usagi and could see that she was equally excited. She looked over at him and smiled.

"I can't wait to meet the Captain, I've heard say that she fought in the Great winter war." She said excitedly " I bet she's really beautiful and strong, what do you think Kuristian?"

" I' don't know, we'll just have to wait and find out."

Suddenly the whole room fell quiet. Kuristian looked forward toward the platform; the side door had slide open, and a figure walked out. It was the Vice Captain Rikichi; he was fairly tall with strange marks on his face and arms.

" That's the guy who worshiped my dad, back when he was Vice Captain."

" I know, how could I forget, he was like at your dad's house ever day."

Usagi giggled and smiled.

" Shhhh, I think that's the Captain now!" said Usagi quickly.

Kuristian redirected his eye's back toward the front of the room, he had looked back just at the right time as the Captain walked out from the side door. Woow….he thought. She was quite short with shoulder length hair; she had a bang hanging over the side of her face. The top of her head had an intricate white headpiece with strange symbols on it. She nobility too…….well hot damn. Kuristian couldn't make out all of her features but even from the distance he was at he could tell that she was wise and had a commanding presence and very..very beautiful . So….this is the woman who fought in the Great War 200 years ago he thought,….this is Kuchiki Rukia…….

200 years since a boy became a Shinigami,

200 years since Aizen's rebellion from the Soul Society

200 years since the time of the Great Winter War

And now 200 years later a new Generation of heroes' has appeared along with a new generation of evil…..200 years later the sword is brought down a third time, and the embers of war spark again……

BLEACH

BLEACH 1

" Wow Kuchiki Taichou is so beautiful and smart and strong and.."

"I get already." Said Kuristian "Kuchiki Taichou is state of the art, I know…. I was there."

Usagi smiled sheepishly and shrugged.

"Sorry, I guess I'm still excited, she is my reason for join the Gotei 13 any way." Usagi sighed. "That woman is like my idol."

Kuristian rolled his eyes; he didn't mind listening to why his friend admired their Captain so much but after the 20th time of hearing why, it had started to wear on his nerves. Usagi continued to talk as they walked down the hall and then waved goodbye as they came to the place where they had to separate ways, Kuristian waved back and head toward his room. He had to admit that he too was excited about meeting his new Captain; he just wasn't as excited to the same extent as Usagi was. Kuristians mind keep going back to the event that had just taken place, after introducing herself Rukia had explained to everyone that she was relatively new to her position on becoming a Captain about 4 years ago and that she was expecting everyone to help do their part to make sure that the sixth squad was strong.

In truth the real reason Kuristian was glad that the squad had a new captain was that he had heard rumors of how the old Captain was a strict person and that he almost never smiled and was quite serious all the time. He had resigned from his position for some unknown reason but whatever the reason was, he left his seat to his younger sister and focused on his position as the high nobleman of the Kuchiki house hold. So to some extend Kuristian was happy, that the former Captain was gone and that a new was in place before he join.

Ten minutes later Kuristian made it to his room, he slid open the door and walked inside and headed straight for his bed. He stretched out on his bedding and ran his hands through his purple hair, he sighed closed his eyes and let the cool breeze kiss his face. Kuristian was just about to get into a deep sleep when there was loud crash, followed by a booming roar.

Kuristian's eyes shot open, what the hell was that!. His question was soon answered by a large hand smashing through the roof of his room, followed by a roar. Kuristian couldn't believe what he was seeing. That's……a hollows hand…….impossible, what's it doing in the here!!...

Kuristian was just able to jump out the way as the hollow's hand smash its way through his room. Kuristian watched the hollow in amazement and shock; he could feel its spiritual pressure and could smell its foul breath as it bellowed again. Kuristian shook himself out his daze and ran out of his room. The hall was a mess and there were several others Shinigami who looked at puzzled as he did.

" What the hell is going on" said some one

" No idea " answered Kuristian " But we'd better get ou-."

Before Kuristian could finish his statement another large hand burst through the ceiling knocking him and the other Shinigami back. Kuristian could feel his body flying through the air and then as it hit the side of a wall. He blinked several time after making impact with the wall. He could hear screaming and shouting as other Shinigami rushed to the scene. Everything seemed to be happing in slow motion to Kuristian. Ow…..man what happened………..where…..must stay awake……got to get out of this wall…

Kuristian slowly pried himself out of the wall and struggled to steady himself after he had reached the floor. After a minute or so he felt a little better, and he began to look around. He could clearly see the outside now off the barracks along with some broking debris. He looked over to where he had been talking to the others only to find a grim scene. He turned away but the roar of the hollow caused him to look back. He ran to where the hollow had last been and looked over to the court yard to see the beast hold a fellow Shinigami to its mouth. Kuristian clenched his teeth in anger, Fucking monster……not only did you mess up my nap but now you're eating my squad mates….

Kuristian drew his sword and ran toward the hollow. The hollow turned to see him coming and lifted its tail and brought it down on top of him. Kuristian dodge right before the tail connected with his body. He could feel the ground shake as the beast tail impacted. Kuristian seeing his chance scaled the tail and ran up the back of hollow. It let out a loud ear piercing cry and shook itself violently. Kuristian struggled to maintain his balance, he could feel himself whipping back and forth as the hollow shook, all it need was for him to lose his grip and it would be all over. Got to stay focused. Almost there…… Kuristian was now on the shoulder blade of the Hollow when it stopped shaking. Kuristian looked up to met with the monster's eye.

Kuristian felt like he was looking into the heart of a vast cavern with no bottom. The hollow's yellow eye stared menacingly at Kuristian; he swallowed hard and continued to run up the hollows back. The Beast roared again and reached up to grab him but it was too late. Kuristian took his sword and shoved it into the neck of the beast, but he didn't stop he continue to run dragging his sword through the wound he had just made. Then he came to the top of the Hollows head and jumped off, the hollow was still screaming in pain and was now shaking violently. Now……to end this.

"Way of destruction 31…..shakkahō!"

A large blast fire from Kuristian hand into on the head of the hollow. Kuristian land on nearby roof and watched as the hollow started disintegrating. Kuristian smiled and was about to pat himself on the back when he remember the hollow was holding someone. He looked around and noticed that the person was already on the ground. Damn it….I hope I wasn't too late. Kuristian quickly flashed stepped over to the wounded person, but when he got there he realized that the person he just said wasn't a Shinigami at all. It was a young woman with was scarlet dress on along with several different things, and judging from the way she was dressed Kuristian thought that she must be of some great importance.

" Oi….oi are you okay, say something?" said Kuristian

There was no legible responsive all Kuristian got was groans and moans. He sighed; at least she was safe whoever she was. Now I need to get some help somehow…. Kuristian looked around for another Shinigami, but all those that where around where either dyeing or dead or were as beat as he was. He was about to move the woman when he hear a familiar voice.

" Kuristian !!"

Kuristian turned around to see Usagi running toward him.

" Usagi! Are you all right?"

Once Usagi reached him she nodded and gave her usual smile. Kuristian looked her up and down, even though she said she was fine he knew that she was prone to lie because she didn't want him to worry. After a few seconds of looking her up and down; Kuristian decided that Usagi was relatively unhurt.

"What the hell's going on?!"she asked.

"I don't know, One minute everything was quite the next I was dodging a hollows' on coming fist." explained Kuristian

" A hollow attacked you too!?" asked Usagi

"Yeah……don't tell me …."

"Yeah there are two more on the other side of the compound and three more in the surrounding area."

Kuristian shook his head, how could this be happing and so fast at that. His mind began to slowly panic when a moan brought his attentions back to the present situation. He looked down at the girl in his arms. …Right first things first, I got to get her to safety…then we can deiced what to do from there…and maybe figure out what the hell is going on….

"Usagi, did you run into any one else while you made your way here?"

Usagi nodded her head yes.

" A few where tending to the injured and the rest are looking for the remain hollows……" Usagi looked down at the girl in Kuristian's arms. "Who is that?, I've never seen her around here before."

" I don't know I found her out here while I was deal with a hollow." Said Kuristian, he looked down at the girl; her breathing was shallow but steady. "Look, I think she'll be ok but we need to get her out of here to the 4th squad's barracks--."

There was ear shattering roar as Kuristian talked. He turned around just in time to see a giant fist coming down on him. .SHIT!!!!.......not enough time to move.. Kuristian turned and quickly threw the girl into Usagi knocking both away from the fist.

Usagi hardly had enough time to react, the hollow had come out of now where an attacked them. She could feel herself still shaking from the impact. She looked over to her right and could see the girl not to far away. At the sight of the girl Usagi's eyes grew and see began to looking around , but he was nowhere to be seen. Her eyes slowly turned to the place where the hollow's fist still lay. Kuristian…..no…no way…..he's ….he's …..no he can't ….damn it!!"

" Kuristian !!!!!" she screamed.

The hollow looked at her and roared again. It lifted its fist from the ground and slowly made its way over to a frozen Usagi. She wanted to move but the moment she locked eyes with the beast she froze, it was like it was holding her with some invisible power. Move….move…move…MOVE…..i have to move…….shit,shit,shit,shit.

The hollow was now close enough to grab her; it bellowed again and reached out to grab her. Then from out of the corner of her eye she saw something jump up from behind the hollow almost on top of it.

"DON'T UNDERESTAME ME.!!! HOLLOW TRASH!!" shouted a voice!!!